[quote]This wiki is is for developing and maintaining the Asterisk Cookbook, to be published by O’Reilly Media, Inc… We invite contributions from the Asterisk community. These contributions can be in two forms:
* Solutions Needed: Tasks that you want to solve, but can't. If we can, we'll write the recipe and include it in the cookbook.
* The Recipe Heap:: Tasks that you've solved, and you've written up a solution for. We'll edit these, and organize them into The Asterisk Cookbook itself. If we select your recipe for the printed cookbook, you'll be credited and paid a nominal pittance. Specifically: if your recipe is used in the print version of the cookbook, we'll give you a complementary copy of the finished cookbook and two books of your choice. Of course, decisions about which recipes to include in the cookbook are completely up to O'Reilly Media and the cookbook's primary authors.
* The Asterisk Cookbook: Here is where the book itself is taking shape. This is not where new submissions should go. We will add recipes in here when they are ready to form part of the book. This does not mean that the recipe has to be perfect, but rather that it's role within the whole has been understood. For the most part, the principal authors and editors will be involved in this
* Extra Recipes: Recipes that do not make the cut for the book itself are not necessarily bad or unworthy, but might be of interest to too small an audience, or might just not fit with any of the sections in the book. The thing is, we don't want these to go to waste, so we're going to put them here, and we'll see how this section shapes up. Who knows, perhaps we'll come up with a completely different cookbook, such as "Extra Spicy Asterisk Cookbook", or "Fun Asterisk Recipes", or whatever.
We don’t want this to be a completely open free-for-all, so there are some groundrules. Before adding requests to Solutions Needed or contributing recipes to the heap, we want you to request an account. In addition to giving us some control, that will allow us to acknowledge you properly when the book is published. If you would like to become a contributor, please read the instructions before starting to write. Cookbook recipes are very structured, and it’s important for you to understand how recipes work before you plunge ahead. [/quote]
The one thing I will suggest is that while the first edition of the O’Rilley TFOT book was a good resource the next edition needs to go even further by addressing each and every * call feature (along with their conf files) listed in the following link; asterisk.org/support/features including new features on version 1.4 such as SLA, BLF, etc. Without this approach the book cannot be complete like the first edition where people had to ramble elsewhere looking for solutions to a lot of issues.
Hello,
You want to make a good book ? Make it by examples… 99% of ppl dont need the nonsense of what DSP and how it works ? Does you celluar phone vendor tell you how GSM technology works ? Just make a book, download software here. You need this hardware. Install it like that. Configure it, and then add troubleshooiting section. I was reading though the book and after over 100pages it still didnt explicitly say what kind of phones i can use, what functions can be implemented etc… Listen this book might be good as a refrence for ppl that know what they are doing but not for people that are new to asterisk. I consider my self to have i good background in computers and i still have trouble following. Its to boring and doesnt have sample solutions…
AsteriskNOW is the soft appliance with the GUI, Asterisk is still Asterisk. To serve the broader community, it should be focused on Asterisk. As otherwise you would need one for AsteriskNOW, TrixBox, etc.
Today i downloaded AsteriskNOW 1.0.2 ISO image (AsteriskNOW-1.0.2.1-x86-disc1.iso) and then burn it into the CD drive using Nero.
Now i am trying to install it on MY PC. I am using USB CD Drive and when i boot from the CD drive it show first window , in which it ask to press enter for graphic mode after that it ask for keyboard type and Language then it gives a pop up message “What type of Media contains the Package to be installed with four option like Hard drive, CD drive, FTP etc”
When i select CD DRIVE it says “The rPath Linux CD was not found in any of your CD drives.Please insert the rPath Linux …”
Please help me and let me know if i am making some mistake at the time of installation.
Today i downloaded AsteriskNOW 1.0.2 ISO image (AsteriskNOW-1.0.2.1-x86-disc1.iso) and then burn it into the CD drive using Nero.
Now i am trying to install it on MY PC. I am using USB CD Drive and when i boot from the CD drive it show first window , in which it ask to press enter for graphic mode after that it ask for keyboard type and Language then it gives a pop up message “What type of Media contains the Package to be installed with four option like Hard drive, CD drive, FTP etc”
When i select CD DRIVE it says “The rPath Linux CD was not found in any of your CD drives.Please insert the rPath Linux …”
Please help me and let me know if i am making some mistake at the time of installation.
Asterisk PBX is getting popularity day by day, Asterisk is the core of every distribution that is developing on it like AsteriskNOW, trixbox etc. But the cook book should concentrate on the folowing issues,
configuration and installation of asterisk.
configuration with different telephony HWs and digital lines.
detailed and advanced configuration help on dialplan aplications.
asterisk source code understanding and asterisk source code development help.
The book should concentrate on the core part of the asterisk rather than explaining the GUI things. It should explain the need of real-tine asterisk, detailed configuration of Agents, Queues, Conference Bridge, FAX, SMS, Video Calling etc. The telephony community is developing day by day so we should concentrate on the latest issues with asterisk. A detailed description on asterisk source code and further development spaces on it help the asterisk developers to understand and develop the source code.
